From: Piet Delaney <piet.delaney@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: piet delaney <piet.delaney@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-cvsimport: Add -N option to force a new import
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:35:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4730DE1A.9010106@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1194320170.21645.72.camel@localhost>
Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 20:17 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net> writes:
>>
>>> I had a git repository for development of rsync and wanted to start
>>> importing the upstream CVS with git-cvsimport, but git-cvsimport saw
>>> that the git repository existed and insisted on updating a previous
>>> import. This patch adds an -N option to git-cvsimport to force a new
>>> import and updates the documentation appropriately.
>> Sounds like a useful addition. Tests?
>
> Good call! As I was dismayed to discover, the existing files in the
> working tree confused the import,\
What's the confusion? I thought updating of the git repo from cvs
worked. Sigh.
-piet
> so -N as I implemented it is useless.
> I ended up doing the import a different way; I'll notify the list if I
> get around to implementing -N properly.
>
> Matt
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-06 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-24 23:28 [PATCH] git-cvsimport: Add -N option to force a new import Matt McCutchen
2007-10-25 3:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-25 4:01 ` Matt McCutchen
2007-10-25 9:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-25 19:45 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-11-06 3:36 ` Matt McCutchen
2007-11-06 21:35 ` Piet Delaney [this message]
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